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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lorena Allam and Ben Butler

Employee at collapsed Youpla funeral fund allegedly used racial slur about Aboriginal clients

Youpla Group
The Aboriginal Community Benefits Fund, later trading as Youpla Group went into liquidation in March, leaving thousands of Aboriginal people unable to pay for funerals. Photograph: Youpla

An employee at the now-collapsed Aboriginal Community Benefits Fund (ACBF) allegedly described its Aboriginal clients as “black cunts” and directed another sales representative going door-to-door to sign people up even if they were drinking alcohol, according to internal emails seen by Guardian Australia.

The ACBF, later trading as Youpla, was a Gold Coast-based private business that aggressively sold low-value funeral insurance almost exclusively to Aboriginal people, including children and babies, the financial ombudsman has repeatedly found.

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